Facts Quote by Muriel Spark

“Fiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it's not true. Some kind of truth emerges from it, but it's not fact.” quote by Muriel Spark — Download Open image

“Fiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it's not true. Some kind of truth emerges from it, but it's not fact.”

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Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes.

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Allow me, in conclusion, to congratulate you warmly upon your sexual intercourse, as well as your singing.

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I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.

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It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.

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“It's only possible to betray where loyalty is due”

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“The sparkle and morning-freshness of the shop, and the butter-conjuring girl, formed a mind-picture which accompanied the whole of my youth.(about the Buttercup Dairy)”

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There was altogether too much candor in married life; it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if…

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Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.

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it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.

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